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I was working at a greenhouse that stored tropical plants over the winter for wealthy clients and someone's "man" -- I don't know what his actual job or relation to this client was and only ever heard him described as this -- was due to bring a delivery truck with 6 or so 10 foot tall lemon trees in pots. This was the day that only me and another small non-man employee were in the building, but we were told he had a handcart and we weren't expected to move anything. But then he did, I fear, drive the truck into the building for a little kiss because he didn't know that the height of the truck was several feet taller than our garage door. And then as me and my coworker were jogging up to the door yelling for him to stop, he did of course repeat this for some reason. And then he was so rattled he basically begged us for help moving the delivery down from the truck onto the floor of the greenhouse.
For reference if you've never seen a lemon tree they get BIG ASS villainously sharp spines on the branches that are spaced out just enough they're difficult to spot, so moving them is harrowing. Especially when they're so tall that the person navigating the handcart has the branches directly in their face once the cart is at an angle sufficient to push it and you have to 100% rely on a buddy to direct you forward. And even moreso! When you're looking at your coworker like is this guy tweaking!! Is he going to drop this big honking spiked tree on us or himself!!
Anyways we all lived and we didn't drop the trees and later he explained he was just a little eepy so it's fine!
For reference if you've never seen a lemon tree they get BIG ASS villainously sharp spines on the branches that are spaced out just enough they're difficult to spot, so moving them is harrowing. Especially when they're so tall that the person navigating the handcart has the branches directly in their face once the cart is at an angle sufficient to push it and you have to 100% rely on a buddy to direct you forward. And even moreso! When you're looking at your coworker like is this guy tweaking!! Is he going to drop this big honking spiked tree on us or himself!!
Anyways we all lived and we didn't drop the trees and later he explained he was just a little eepy so it's fine!
Apr 26, 2024
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Today at work, someone was training to fall of the roof, a stunt at the end of all of our cowboy shows. When he fell I saw this dark spot on his neck, with itty bity legs too! I thought i‘d be the hero and snatch it off his neck, so i yelled, “yo hold up you got a tick on your neck“ and i pushed his head out of the way, yanking at the “tick”. It was IN THERE, so i just kept pulling on it, but everyone else around was like, “wait that’s a mole…” and the guy said “im just jewish it’s okay”
Jun 7, 2025
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🪳small boy put a plastic roach under some packaged sliced ham on the grocery store conveyor belt. i jumped
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🐢i recently visited nyc & went to central park for the 2nd time in my life. it was a beautiful day & a turtle had wandered away from the reservoir & onto the path. a passerby offered the turtle a little piece of mango from his fruit cup - another passerby said calmly “no, you’ll kill it”, the the mango holding passerby said, “really?”, the opposition said “i dunno” - they both walked away.
either way, i came to ask who are you here? offer the turtle a bit of mango for the whimsy of it, or err on the side of caution as to (possibly) not disturb the park turtle’s natural function.
either way, i came to ask who are you here? offer the turtle a bit of mango for the whimsy of it, or err on the side of caution as to (possibly) not disturb the park turtle’s natural function.
Jun 30, 2025
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🔋I’m sick of feeling powerless so my new coping strategy is to not let a stupid system bully me into quiet despair. I’m learning how to use my state’s General Assembly’s online bill tracker and I’m subscribing to email updates for the agendas and the public hearings of the legislative committees I’m most concerned about. I’m memorizing all my legislators‘ names and emailing and calling regularly.
Also: Check to see if your state’s Legislative Library has Libguides that explain in layman’s terms what bills are passing in your state and other educational/legislative resources you have freely available to you!!!
Also: Check to see if your state’s Legislative Library has Libguides that explain in layman’s terms what bills are passing in your state and other educational/legislative resources you have freely available to you!!!
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